SBIR/STTR Research Award
SCYTHE: Simulate CYber Threats using Hybrid Entities
Award amount
$1,009,194Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2019Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Missile Defense Agency
- Recipient company
- TIER 1 PERFORMANCE SOLUTIONS LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2019-09-30
- Contract end date
- 2021-09-29
- UEI
- SQLGQDFWBJ51
- Solicitation number
- 18.1
- Topic code
- MDA18-001
Research abstract
TiER1’s proposed SCYTHE (Simulate CYber Threats using Hybrid Entities) system will advance the state-of-the-art in cyber operator training technologies. SCYTHE combines proven technologies and gameful learning design with innovative advances in intelligent agent authoring capabilities. SCYTHE leverages your training sandbox where trainee cyber defenders interact with SCYTHE’s advanced attacker agents. In a sophisticated pedagogical design, trainee defenders will train and rehearse in a realistic operating environment with threats created by external and internal sources. The hybrid agents are enabled with cutting-edge human behavior representations to generate adaptive, realistic behavior in a way that supports the achievement of learning objectives. Approved for Public Release 19-MDA-10203 (4 Sep 19)
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- SCOPES: Scalable Cyber Operations Educational Strategies
- CREWS -- Instructional Strategies and Methods for Pilot Training
- ECCCHO: Effective Combat Casualty Care Handoff Operations
- Inspire: Faculty Onboarding and Development Platform
- InSite: Targeted Training Content Management
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Advanced Cyber Threat Intelligence and Vulnerability Analysis Training Environment (ACTIVATE)
- Advanced Cyber Threat Intelligence and Vulnerability Analysis Training Environment (ACTIVATE)
- SCYTHE - Simulate CYber Threats using Hybrid Entities
- TACTS: Tactical Artificial Intelligence Cybersecurity Training System
- WhizRT: Simulated Intelligent Cybersecurity Red Team
Research funding history
39 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2009–2024). Reported award amounts total $17,399,448. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Energy